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File Created: 23-Mar-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  12-Apr-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name GRAM Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L032
Status Showing NTS Map 082L05E
Latitude 050º 23' 13'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 42' 14'' Northing 5585149
Easting 307793
Commodities Opal, Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types Q11 : Volcanic-hosted opal
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Gram opal occurrence is located on a tributary of Ingram Creek, approximately 9.3 kilometres southeast of Westwold. The claim was staked, in 1995, as a result of prospecting work conducted by R. W. Yorke-Hardy, who noted numerous occurrences of agate, white to brown opaque common opal and honey- to amber- coloured jelly opal in fractures and vesicles within various volcanic rock units.

The claims are underlain by an extensive basal sequence of crudely bedded clast- and matrix- supported lahars and ash to lapilli tuff units of the Eocene Kamloops Group. Locally, a northeast- trending belt of clast- supported basaltic- andesitic lahars of the Tranquille Formation occur.

White to grey agate, white common, opaque grey- black, opaque red caramel to brown and translucent clear to light blue jelly opal occur in a grey to bleached brown aphanitic to amygdaloidal basalt over an area of 600 by 150 metres (Assessment Report 24838).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 24838

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